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Ugandan foreign affairs minister, Henry Oryem’s comment calling those who have died of hunger in his country idiots has sparked outrage. Oryem had said that the country’s favourable climate and fertile land should push Ugandans to grow food for themselves. “It’s only an idiot, a real idiot, that can die of hunger in Uganda,” the state minister for foreign affairs told the NTV Uganda television channel. “If you work hard, there is land in Uganda. The climate is right in spite [of] climate change. If you make a double effort to make sure that you go out in the morning, till your land, you plant …